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by PopGreene 2y ago
Isn't the coining of bland euphemisms the enshittification of language? That's the way with euphemisms. We start with shell shock and end up with PTSD. (Thank you, George Carlin) What will we end up with after "platform decay
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by PopGreene 2y ago
If he's a political consultant, who was he consulting for? Should they be facing criminal charges as well?
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by PopGreene 2y ago
From fourth grade until I left academia I was expected to work at home. While in college, I "collaborated" by meeting with my team on group projects and formed study groups without needing to be herded together with them. We figur
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by PopGreene 2y ago
> Firstly, there are no min/max icons on the windows... I'm mostly with you on this one. They should be present by default. Now I can't speak for Fedora, but on Debian there are two configuration apps called "Settings
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by PopGreene 2y ago
How does this work? Zuckerberg and investors are getting richer. Who's paying for it? Advertisers? If so, aren't they getting ripped off when bots are generating clicks? Why do they stick around? What am I missing?
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by PopGreene 2y ago
I was at a Honda dealer a few weeks ago. Some guy comes out and hops in an SUV. He puts it in reverse and I hear what sounds like a choir of angels: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...." Things are going to be getting pretty weird.
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by PopGreene 2y ago
I use https://postsecret.com/feed/
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by PopGreene 3y ago
They are self taught. That alone is enough. It shows they are curious and interested in their vocation. It also shows they can figure things out on their own. In addition, knowing a few languages of different types (OO, functional, etc.) me
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by PopGreene 3y ago
The worst mistake, so far.
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by PopGreene 3y ago
What kind of work is being done in this office? That's kind of relevant to the question.
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by PopGreene 3y ago
Exactly. I didn't see anything about their problem with idiot customers "accidentally" subscribing.
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by PopGreene 3y ago
I had a prof that did something like this. It was back in the 80s, so no internet. Instead, because it was a large class, he had to give the mid-terms to different parts of the class. He would make all the tests look similar, but with small
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by PopGreene 4y ago
I'm forced to use Windows at work. I use pictures of broken windows as my background.
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by PopGreene 4y ago
If you want to create 10x engineers, be sure to start with 10x management, a 10x culture, 10x hardware and software resources, and a 10x physical environment. Otherwise, you may not be able to recognize the 10x engineers you have because th
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by PopGreene 4y ago
Interesting article: "C Is Not a Low-level Language" ( https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479 )
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by PopGreene 5y ago
This happened to my shortly after I bought a 2018 Accord. I'm on the interstate in the fast lane with a pickup off my front quarter. There had been construction in the area recently and they hadn't cleaned up the lane shift marki
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by PopGreene 5y ago
The Bruce Lee quotation is like Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
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by PopGreene 5y ago
Corp exec: "I'm in charge." "People do what I tell them." "Pay me." Prosecutor: "You've committed a felony." Corp exec: "Someone made me do it."
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by PopGreene 5y ago
This is what I was thinking. Jean IS the business. They should offer to sell it to her. Then they can buy a fast food franchise. They'd have more leverage over teenagers and old people with no retirement.
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by PopGreene 5y ago
> Let's contrast with an approach where two (or even more) engineers with somewhat disjoin (sic) skills were assigned to one task... Holy crap! He's invented the Software Development Team!
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by PopGreene 5y ago
Well, that article sure confirmed my biases. It seemed like an opinion piece, i.e. speculative. It does look like the author is qualified to speculate, tho. I think managers can suffer from impostor syndrome, possibly even more than their e
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by PopGreene 5y ago
> ... IT software development profession largely lacks — or fails to put into place — automated, objective and repeatable metrics that can measure progress and predict project completion with any reasonable degree of accuracy. Instead,
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by PopGreene 5y ago
Duff's device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device Please excuse me while I go barf.
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by PopGreene 5y ago
I list my skill set in a prominent location on my resume and in the appropriate location on my linkedin page. Why do I keep getting contacted about jobs that require something that's not in my skill set? Linkedin should have the abilit
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by PopGreene 5y ago
I don't disagree. I'm sure he believed it wasn't worth the time or effort. I'm sure the CTO didn't either. I was way behind them. They knew what I didn't know at the time: the company was not interested in inve
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by PopGreene 5y ago
I had a manager tell me "it won't work" after I'd done a proposal that involved an algorithm taught in undergraduate computer science. I expected most of the team would recognize the algorithm and see how it could be ap
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by PopGreene 5y ago
Back in the 70s, my mother was still paying her mortgage. She forgot one payment and the bank sent her a rather nasty, threatening letter. She rightly got in a huff, called them up, and asked them, "I've made every payment on time
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by PopGreene 5y ago
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” – Thomas Sowell
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by PopGreene 5y ago
I follow and sometimes advise on /r/learnpython. There are two types of questions on there that make me shake my head. 1. "How do I do this?" The question often that can be resolved with a search. This person would rat
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by PopGreene 6y ago
> If you’re a software engineer, you would probably agree with what Steve Jobs said. No. I don't. I do believe that Jobs was being hyperbolic. This article would seem to imply that most managers are 0.1X: > In fact, you can see h

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